On Monday 28 October 2002 03:53 pm,Joel Hammer wrote: > It may be function of the camera. I just looked at a Nikon Coolpic > 4500. The salesman said that the camera had the option of saving in > several formats, including jpg and tif. > Joel > > Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:57:00PM -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote: > > On Monday 28 October 2002 01:36 pm,Joel Hammer wrote: > > > Are the images recorded on the memory card as jpg's? Or, does the > > > software convert them to jpg's when they are read? I do not have > > > much experience with graphics, but, I have always thought of > > > jpg's as a compromise. > > > > That's a good question and one that has sat in the back of my mind > > also. There is no "software" involved in the reader, it simply > > mounts (at least on my box) as a SCSI device and the files have a > > .jpg extention. Remember that jpegs can be made with a little or a > > lot of compression.
Oohh, get the tif one and get a stack of 128MB cards. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
